AI photo booth
What is an AI photo booth?
An AI photo booth takes a guest's photo and turns it into a designed image while the party is still going — the guest stands there as an astronaut, a comic character or a baroque portrait, with their own face. They scan a QR code and have it on their phone before they are back at the table.
The difference from an ordinary photo booth is not the shutter, it is what happens afterwards. And the difference from a filter is that no filter turns a photo into a new picture.
Other names, same thing: AI photobooth, AI photo booth, KI-Fotobox — they all mean this.
Before – after
What a photo turns into.
Drag the slider: on the left the shot from the photo booth, on the right the same picture after the transformation – here as a steampunk scene. The faces stay their own.
What happens in that half minute
Five steps between the shutter and the finished picture. The guest experiences two of them.
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Trigger
On a tablet, on the booth you already own, or through the API. The way in changes neither the price nor the result.
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Prepare
The photo is scaled to a workable size and its metadata is dropped — the location it was taken and the camera's serial number have no business reaching an AI provider. At the same time, faces are counted.
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Choose a scene
The guest taps an experience. The booth only offers what fits their group: some scenes carry two people, others ten.
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Transform
An image model creates the scene. The platform then checks whether the faces are still the right ones — as a measurement, not as a judgement call by whoever is standing there.
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Take it along
The picture appears on the booth together with a QR code. The guest scans it, and the image is on their phone — and in the gallery of the celebration at the same time.
How long does it take?
Measured across this platform's runs so far, half of the pictures were finished after about half a minute. When it gets busy it takes longer: the jobs queue up, and the booth shows where it is.
That is a measurement of our own runs, not a guarantee. Anyone promising a fixed number of seconds has not measured it.
What comes out at the end
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For the guest
Their picture, immediately, with no app and no sign-up. A QR code on the booth leads straight to it; anyone who wants can download it at full size.
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For the celebration
A shared gallery with a QR code of its own. It holds the booth's pictures and the phone photos guests upload themselves — even after the AI moments have run out.
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When the AI does not deliver
Then the guest still gets a picture — their own shot, styled, instead of an error message. And the failed attempt does not come off the booked allowance.
Three routes to an AI photo booth
You pay for what happens to a picture — not for how it gets in.
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With no hardware of your own
An iPad or tablet becomes the photo booth: open the address in the browser, stand it up, done. No app, no setup, nothing to rent.
One lamp beside it is enough. The light in the finished picture comes from the scene, not from your room — your photo only has to show the face sharply and brightly enough.
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On a photo booth you already own
The booth stays exactly as it is. A small program on the booth computer watches the output folder and places the AI image beside it — with dslrBooth, or independently of the manufacturer via the folder.
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Through an API
For your own software: picture in, result out. Access currently goes through us; a public API will follow.
What happens to the pictures
The shot is sent to an image model to be transformed — that is the step without which there is no AI photo booth. Before it goes, the metadata is dropped: where it was taken and the camera's serial number are nobody's business, least of all an AI provider's.
Storage is in Germany, and it has a deadline. Every picture carries a deletion date tied to the celebration's gallery; after that a nightly job clears it out. Anything that only served the processing expires sooner.
Before the first shot, a notice appears on screen that the guest confirms. The organiser can replace the wording — they can only switch the confirmation off by explicitly declaring that they inform their guests themselves. That declaration is recorded.
In full in our privacy policy.
Questions about the AI photo booth
What if there is no Wi-Fi at the venue?
Then no AI picture is made: the transformation happens on our servers, not on the tablet. It does not take much, though — what gets uploaded is a photo, not a video. A phone hotspot is enough, and reception where the tablet stands matters more than speed. Put the tablet where your phone has a signal, and ask the venue about their guest Wi-Fi beforehand. If the connection drops mid-evening, what happens depends on what you photograph with: on the tablet that particular shot produces no picture, it is not held back for later. If your existing photo booth runs through the connector, that keeps watching the folder and catches the pictures up as soon as the network is back.
Do we need a flash unit or a ring light?
No. A tablet and a simple light source are enough. The light in the finished picture comes from the scene, not from your room: every scene brings its own lighting with it — evening sun, spotlights, candlelight. What the result really depends on is your photo, not the megapixels: light from the front, a sharp face, the camera close enough. One lamp beside the tablet does it — the front camera of an older tablet in low light is the most common reason for a weak picture, and the lamp fixes exactly that. And anyone who already has a photo booth with a flash keeps using it, of course.
What is an AI photo booth?
Your guests step in front of the camera the way they would at any photo booth — and what comes back is not a photo but a picture: a Renaissance painting, a snow-covered forest, the winner's podium with a champagne bottle. With their own faces, recognisable to everyone at the table. Not a filter laid over the top, but a freshly painted image.
Is an AI photo booth the same as an AI photobooth?
Yes. AI photobooth, AI photo booth, KI-Fotobox, KI-Photobooth — every one of these names means the same thing: a photo booth whose shots are turned into new images by artificial intelligence. German usage settled on „Fotobox“, English on ‚photo booth‘. If you searched for one and found the other, you are still in the right place.
How long do our guests have to wait?
Usually a good twenty seconds — long enough to watch it happen, short enough that nobody walks away. If several people trigger at once, or an image has to be computed a second time, it can stretch to just under a minute.
Do we need a device for this?
No. A phone is enough — yours or your guests'. No tripod, no printer, no delivery, no setting up the day before. If you already have a photo booth, keep it: VivaPix attaches to it and leaves everything else as it is.
Does it work with everyone at the table?
With some scenes, yes — Renaissance and Winter Magic carry a whole group. With others it gets tight from about four people on, and then the booth says so beforehand instead of handing you a picture with someone missing afterwards. The nicer route is a different one anyway: everyone taps their own face and gets their own picture.
What happens to our guests' faces?
They are detected in order to check whether you are still recognisable in the finished image — and are not stored afterwards. Neither as a crop nor as a string of numbers. What remains is the picture. Everything sits on servers in Germany and is deleted once the deadline passes.
And if an image goes wrong?
Then we compute it again. If that does not work either, your guest gets their original photo with a short note — nobody is left in front of an empty screen. Failed attempts are on us and are not taken off your allowance.
How do guests get their pictures?
Every picture gets its own QR code. Scan it and it is on the phone — no app, no sign-up, full quality. Everything also lands in the gallery of the evening, which you can still open months later.
For your own celebration
Fixed packages from 29 € for one evening — including the guest gallery, guest uploads and downloads.